Summary of site: Funbrain has various games for the different aspects of Language Arts. For example, there are word scrambles, spelling games and grammer correction. The games all have various levels of difficulty for the many students who use the site. The site is organized by the grade level appropriate for the game
Summary of game: The game I chose is called "Rooting Out Words". The game deals with identifying where the roots lie within a word, and how the roots change the meaning of the word. For example, it gives the definition of the suffix "-cede" (to go, yield) and asks a question about a word that has the suffix in it. The choices I was given for "-cede" were "auditorium", "preceded", "proceed", and "reflection". The question/clue was "to come or go before another person or object?"
Evaluation: 1. Color: There wasn't much color that was flashy or attention getting. It was very simple. 2. Repetition: The game repeated the same concept but with different words
3. Talking text: N/A
4. Visual Cues: The game does not have visual cues
5. Mistakes: Mistakes were handled appropriately by describing the right answer
6. Rating: 7
7. Highlighted cues: N/A 8. Navigation Cues: N/A
9. Click Back and Back: Brings students back to previous answers/questions
Evaluation: 1. Color: There isn't a real thematic color scheme. It's very minimalistic 2. Repetition: The game repeats the same game setup for each questions. It's multiple chice for every one.
3. Talking Text: N/A
4. Visual Cues: There are no visual cues
5. Mistakes: When a student answers incorrectly they are prompted to recorrect the misspelled word
6. Rating: 7 7. Highlighted Cues: N/A 8. Navigation Cues: Simple to get through. Buttons are clearly marked.
9. Click Back and Back: Clicking back returns them to the previous question.
10. Click and Drag: N/A
Word Confusion http://www.funbrain.com/whichword/index.html 1. Color: There isn't any special coloring. It's kind of bland to be honest. 2. Repetition: The game does repeat the same concept asking questions in the same fashion 3. Talking Text: N/A 4. Visual Cues: There are no visual cues 5. Mistakes: Producing an incorrect answer results in the game shwing the correct answer and then moving on to the next question 6. Rating: 7 7. Highlighted Cues: N/A 8. Navigation Cues: Simple to navigate. No ambiguity. 9.Click Back and Back: This results in the display of the previous question. 10. Click and Drag: N/A
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Rooting out words
URL: http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/root.cgi
Summary of site: Funbrain has various games for the different aspects of Language Arts. For example, there are word scrambles, spelling games and grammer correction. The games all have various levels of difficulty for the many students who use the site. The site is organized by the grade level appropriate for the game
Summary of game:
The game I chose is called "Rooting Out Words". The game deals with identifying where the roots lie within a word, and how the roots change the meaning of the word. For example, it gives the definition of the suffix "-cede" (to go, yield) and asks a question about a word that has the suffix in it. The choices I was given for "-cede" were "auditorium", "preceded", "proceed", and "reflection". The question/clue was "to come or go before another person or object?"
Evaluation:
1. Color: There wasn't much color that was flashy or attention getting. It was very simple.
2. Repetition: The game repeated the same concept but with different words
3. Talking text: N/A
4. Visual Cues: The game does not have visual cues
5. Mistakes: Mistakes were handled appropriately by describing the right answer
6. Rating: 7
7. Highlighted cues: N/A
8. Navigation Cues: N/A
9. Click Back and Back: Brings students back to previous answers/questions
10. Click and drag: N/A
Spell Check
http://www.funbrain.com/spell/index.html
Summary: This game is a simple game where you identify the misspelled word
Evaluation:
1. Color: There isn't a real thematic color scheme. It's very minimalistic
2. Repetition: The game repeats the same game setup for each questions. It's multiple chice for every one.
3. Talking Text: N/A
4. Visual Cues: There are no visual cues
5. Mistakes: When a student answers incorrectly they are prompted to recorrect the misspelled word
6. Rating: 7
7. Highlighted Cues: N/A
8. Navigation Cues: Simple to get through. Buttons are clearly marked.
9. Click Back and Back: Clicking back returns them to the previous question.
10. Click and Drag: N/A
Word Confusion
http://www.funbrain.com/whichword/index.html
1. Color: There isn't any special coloring. It's kind of bland to be honest.
2. Repetition: The game does repeat the same concept asking questions in the same fashion
3. Talking Text: N/A
4. Visual Cues: There are no visual cues
5. Mistakes: Producing an incorrect answer results in the game shwing the correct answer and then moving on to the next question
6. Rating: 7
7. Highlighted Cues: N/A
8. Navigation Cues: Simple to navigate. No ambiguity.
9.Click Back and Back: This results in the display of the previous question.
10. Click and Drag: N/A